Leaked screenshot suggests Dishonored II “full reveal” at E3

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Thief may have just hit store shelves, but many a gamer will view Dishonored as the successor to the original Thief trilogy. Released in 2012, Arkane Studios’s game was received very positively by both critics and gamers alike. In fact, sales were so good that publisher Bethesda said it intended to develop Dishonored into a series.

And now it looks as though that intention has turned into something real, that is, if you believe the image below is legit. The screenshot shows what looks to be a Dishonored II title screen, complete with a #DarknessOfTyvia hashtag and promised “full reveal” at E3 2014. The blue light at the bottom right of the shot also suggests it is running on a PS4 as that looks to be a DualShock 4 lightbar.

You’d expect any new Dishonored game to put in an appearance on the PS4, but maybe this is suggesting more and Sony could have clinched an exclusive. That would be a shame as the original game was available on PC, PS4, and Xbox 360. I’d like to see that repeated, at least across PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

Just like with the Mass Effect series, Bethesda has an opportunity here to re-release Dishonored for next-gen consoles before the next game arrives. Whether it chooses to do that will in part come down to how far along Dishonored II is in development. Typically such development projects can take 18-36 months, so we could see Dishonored II before the end of the year. I’d say early 2015 was a safer bet, though.

If you’re wondering about the hashtag, Tyvia is the northernmost island in Dishonored’s Empire of the Isles, with a population that prefers being isolated from the rest of the islands. However, Tyvia is also the name given to a whaling ship anchored to an ice shelf that is seen in several paintings scattered through Dishonored. Maybe both the island and the ship play a role in Dishonored II’s story arc?